CAD/CAM/CAE

For much of the history of industrial design, designers visualized with sketches, laboratory prototypes or clay models. Those designs were then handed off to manufacturing engineers for transfer to production. In the process the original intent was often lost. Since the mid-1980s, 3D CAD has enabled designers and engineers to work with the same model-based information. However, for all the benefits of being able to work in 3D, industrial designers have lost the visual and tactile advantage of physical modeling.

In industrial design and manufacturing, Infinite Z is redefining ‘state-of-the-art’ for conceptualization, design, engineering, rapid prototyping, and transfer to production. Artist’s renderings, hand crafted models and expensive pre-prototype test constructions that take time, cost money and often require off-site production can be replaced by Infinite Z-powered visual simulations at the desktop. Similarly, in architecture and civil engineering, Infinite Z is redefining the process of visualization, 3D Sketching, space planning, resolution of interferences, construction planning, and more.

A model is a repository of information about a project; the ability to better interact with a model unlocks more information. Being able to check for interferences and tolerances can be even more useful if it is joined to information about materials and analysis data, and then shared with others working on the project. Like solid-modeling capability, the Infinite Z platform will provide greater design flexibility and more accurate product representation. It will allow more effective collaboration in the early phase of product development, which could greatly reduce initial costs and eventually trim inventory costs. The Infinite Z platform opens a completely new level of design interaction and collaboration.